Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757487Ab2ENSDC (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2012 14:03:02 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:53063 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757364Ab2ENSDA (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2012 14:03:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120514171702.GC21960@aftab.osrc.amd.com> References: <20120513095913.GB28863@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F192EED2B@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com> <20120514171702.GC21960@aftab.osrc.amd.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 11:02:59 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: p8h3nIDJwX9MkNmrT-GmORe4z4Q Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/mce: Only restart instruction after machine check recovery if it is safe From: Tony Luck To: Borislav Petkov Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Ingo Molnar , Chen Gong , "Huang, Ying" , Hidetoshi Seto Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 729 Lines: 17 On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > I was wondering about that but don't have any other flags/use cases. > Well, we can always change it later if needed. So is that an Ack? I was thinking that I should send this part to Linus now ... since restarting from a fault when RIPV isn't set could result in an application doing something bad (like getting the wrong answer). The instruction stuff is new and needs to wait for the merge window. -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/